UK law affecting children is based on the principles of the Children Act 1989 which, for the first time in legislation affecting children, made child welfare the paramount consideration. It aimed to strike a balance between protecting and promoting child welfare by avoiding unjustified state ...
The law under theBribery Act 2010the UK’s tough new anti-bribery and corruption law is straightforward and summarised below. The Bribery Act and the FCPA While it, like its US equivalent the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), has been criticised for being uncertain and overly broad it is...
This new legislation is more than sex-negative: It opens the door to future, more expansive content bans — what British journalist Laurie Penny hasreferredto in the past as "the mission creep of Internet censorship." "In the name of protecting children from a rotten tide of raunchy videos,...
This was directly caused by people teaching children unquestioning obedience to “authority”: A [fundamentalist Mormon] religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives ” including 10 underage girls faces decades in prison…for [repeatedly rap]ing girls as young as 9…Samuel Bateman, ...
The Internet makes it possible for pedophiles to target children on social networking sites, forums, chat rooms and other resources that provide direct communication with a potential victim. They act in different ways. Some of them openly declare their intentions, offering a child a variety materia...
Some still believe these sociopaths really want to “protect children”. UK admits “human trafficking” narrative is about migration control. Facebook didn’t think the face-eating leopards would eat its face. The rescue industry provides many opportunities to play cowboy. Cops cosplaying pimps ...
Unit 6 – A4 Legislation affecting schools Legislation Summary Impact on schools Human Rights Act 1998 Linked to the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. Under this Act individuals in the UK have particular rights and freedoms however these have to balance against the rights and freedoms of ...
In the same year, the State of Illinois voted to introduce legislation to ban the sale of violent or sexually explicit video games to children in Illinois, a move other states and cities have tried but federal courts have repeatedly struck down. The move was in direct response to the video...
When proposed legislation cannot gain enough votes to pass both houses of Congress, the National Defense Authorization Act is oftens used as a means to get the proposed legislation formalized into law. On December 11, 2020, Congress passed and approved the National Defe...
Also, the 60% threshold is the measure mostly used in official UK statistics on poverty (Francis-Devine, 2021). Overall, this paper uses both BHC and AHC measures as well as material deprivation to assess the poverty levels of families with children. Child poverty and child disability Children...